The Gateway Arch designed by Eero Saarinen started development February 12,  1963 and finished development October 28, 1965. It cost a total of $13 million altogether for everything. The Arch was buily in St. Louis Missouri. The Arch was dedicated to “The people of America”. The gateway is the center piece to the national gateway park and has been recognized as an international symbol of St. Louis as a high tourist destination.

The coolest thing about the arch is that it started building in two separate places the two ends on the legs started separately. If the legs were to have been even 1/64th of a inch off they would not have been able to connect at the top and the building would’ve been ripped down.

The height of the arch is 630 feet high and it was predicted that 13 people would die in the building process of the arch. The arch is known as the highest arch world wide. I think thats one of the coolest things, is that our nation has this title and we built it with our bare hands and worked for this.